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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

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Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

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  1. 2026-09-10 14:32 · r/ChatGPT
    Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm."
  2. 2026-09-10 14:08 · r/agi
    Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm."
  3. 2026-09-10 11:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm."
  4. 2026-09-10 11:22 · r/OpenAI
    Meta AI Researcher (who quit): "If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is unleash an agent swarm."
  5. 2026-09-09 22:11 · Wired AI
    The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

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